x9-idea-critic

x9-idea-critic is a skill for Claude Code from xonika9/agent-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,920 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured workflow for criticizing or pressure-testing an idea through selected independent perspectives. Red-teaming means deliberately looking for weaknesses, failure modes, and reasons a proposal may not work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It runs one or more critics in default, provider-specific, or multi-lens modes and evaluates the stated idea. It can recover the latest clearly discussed proposal when the command omits the idea.
Why use it?
It helps expose hidden assumptions and risks before time or resources are committed. Independent critics can reduce the chance that one viewpoint dominates the review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the x9-agent-skills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit It runs one or more critics in default, provider-specific, or multi-lens modes and evaluates the stated idea. It can recover the latest clearly discussed proposal when the command omits the idea.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xonika9/agent-skills/x9-idea-critic
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add xonika9/agent-skills --skill x9-idea-critic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonika9/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install x9-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,920 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00078 $0.01920
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00960
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00192

Measured 4d ago against content hash 407700109a21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

x9-idea-critic scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/x9-idea-critic/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea critic

Criticize through the routes the user selected. Claude and GPT are independent perspectives with different error profiles; neither route is a fallback or a quality tier. Route names identify providers, not the currently selected models.

The machine-readable onboarding contract lists external prerequisites.

Select mode

For /x9-idea-critic [mode] [idea], treat the first argument as a mode only when it is one of the recognized words below. Otherwise it is part of the idea. Natural-language requests map to the same modes.

When the invocation omits the idea, recover the latest clearly discussed proposal, intended outcome, success criterion, and known constraints from the conversation. Ask one short question only when the conversation leaves the target idea ambiguous.

Mode Natural-language examples Critics
default / omitted «раскритикуй идею», «проверь на прочность» one fresh Claude critic and one fresh GPT critic
claude «раскритикуй через Claude» one fresh Claude critic
gpt «спроси GPT», «раскритикуй через GPT» one fresh GPT critic
full «разнеси по полной», «панель критиков» one critic from each provider for each of 2–3 declared lenses

For full, select and declare exactly two or three applicable lenses before dispatch from feasibility/execution, user or market demand, and devil's-advocate/simpler alternative. Tell the user that this mode is slower and heavier, then start one critic per declared lens/provider pair as host capacity permits. That declared matrix is the completion boundary.

Sealed brief

Before dispatch, collect the load-bearing evidence into one sealed packet. Give every critic the same factual packet:

  • the proposal in neutral language;
  • intended user/outcome and observable success criterion;
  • known constraints and an evidence packet containing the relevant content or excerpt, its source path or URL as provenance, retrieval time when freshness matters, whether the packet includes the full source or an excerpt, and any extraction limits;
  • the critic's job: identify invalidating assumptions, failure modes, relevant competition, a cheaper or simpler path to the same outcome, the most likely practical cause of failure, and the cheapest disconfirming tests;
  • required output: KILLER, SERIOUS, MINOR, evidence/uncertainty, and a verdict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago Changed · +13 lines 407700109a21
  2. 11d ago First seen · 80 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A f62409c0187d

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x9-idea-critic is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonika9/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,920 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.